Category Archives: Reactive Attachment Disorder

its 0630, have you had your tantrum yet? Good morning dear readers… David attends a day program in a city 58 miles from our home. He is transported back and forth by our school district everyday. So he has to be up and ready to leave the house by 7am. This morning, David was caught with keys that he had stolen from mom and dads room. He was caught breaking into an area of the house that he isn’t allowed in. And when he was caught it immediately set off a tantrum. “David, what do you think that you are doing…” I asked. “Just trying to wake up” was his response. The Tantrum begins! Then we proceeded to talk about his clothing for the day. He wanted to wear his pajamas and wet pull up to school. The tantrum started. 20 minutes later with him acting like a child 9

Nothing like a tantrum about medicine to end a perfectly good day. David takes his meds with Apple Juice. Two of the meds are liquid and taste pretty nasty. Today I had everything ready for him to take his meds and he broke out into a tantrum because he didn’t have his apple juice. Even after I told him that his apple juice is on the counter, and showed it to him, he had a tantrum about taking his meds. David had very positive comments from his day at school. Positive behaviors. then he gets home and has to let all of the negative behaviors loose. He didn’t do it right after school, it actually started while I was trying to watch a movie with his older sister. See, David wasn’t the center of attention at that point. and in his world, that his just plain wrong. He also started

I was pretending to be asleep this morning when David got up at 4:30am. He comes over, taps me on the shoulder… “Dad, what time do I have to be up for school…?” I told him “6:30” so he went back to bed. just as easy as could be. this never happens. 🙂 No, I am not naive enough to think that he is suddenly going to stop roaming the house and stealing things in the wee hours of the night. All the same though, it was pretty neat. Why was I pretending to be asleep instead of actually sleeping? David gets up and frequently gets into things that aren’t his. So I was hoping to observe him returning to his bed with whatever device he stole from his siblings. It is easier and far less time consuming to catch him in the act than it is to convince him